Let me try again....
@Tony Hopkinson, Would it have been better if I said that scalability is "an integral component" of clean design/code? (I thought I covered that when I qualified my statement by noting that "... code that does not scale **when it should** is not really efficient.")
I can see how developers may overlook scalability just as many(??) overlook application security. I agree that neither should be an afterthought in application development. Just as the article did not "abolish" optimization, it was not my intention to minimize scalability.
My take on the original article was that, among other things, it tried to highlight the need to avoid the kind of mentality that leads to early and "premature optimization." I am struggling,,, but in "I don't think that's a nope", @apotheon makes it clear that there is a place -- a requirement if you will -- for scalability in clean design.
